Adobe
Photoshop has been a fixture of the image editing business for so long
that despite the best efforts of Adobe's marketing department its name
has taken on the status of a household word for image editing. The first
version was launched for the Apple Macintosh computer in 1990, and the
program quickly became the industry standard, a position it has held
ever since. New versions of Photoshop have been released every year or
two since 1990. They were numbered up until the launch of the eighth
version, called Photoshop CS, in 2003. CS stands for Creative Suite,
since Photoshop is now part of a range of creative graphics and media
programs published by Adobe.
The
eleventh version of the program, Photoshop CS4, was launched in
September 2008. I wrote a beta preview of it at the time, detailing some
of the new features, but since then I've been using it on a daily basis
and I've got to know the program pretty well, so it's finally time for a
thorough in-depth review.
While
the first Photoshop CS was a major upgrade from the previous version,
the two subsequent versions, CS2 and CS3, were criticized by some people
as being only minor updates, and many private users never bothered to
update to the newer products. CS4 however is far more than a minor
update of CS3. Whole chunks of the program have been re-written to make
them faster, smoother and more effective, and many new features have
been added.
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